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When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
 
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MitchLL said:
When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
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Yes, I am sure Pollard is in contact with the scale people.

jfc
 
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MitchLL said:
When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
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I don't believe for one second that a big donor for ISU is lying about his meat.
 
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MitchLL said:
When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
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More Big Ag corruption from the Socialists
 
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MitchLL said:
When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
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Convicted in what court?
 
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MitchLL said:
When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.
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Thanks for that info! I am meeting a manager of theirs soon so I will add this to the list of questions and how they can be trusted in doing potential business.
 
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What's humorous in this is Gary Lynch has now changed the name of the family business so that customers might not connect the new corporation to the old one that now has been twice caught by the Feds.

Are people really that ignorant?

Lynch apparently even scapegoated his brother, John, for the violations in 2017.

Bet those family reunions are fun.

BTW...I went to high school with John Lynch. Gary and John's father was also considered a bit "shady" went he built the family business back in the 60s/70s.
 
I have never quite.understood why a university or any nonprofit gets shade because some donor acted badly. Why is ISU being tied to this at all? It has nothing to do with them unless the guys name is on a building and needs to be removed. Beyond that so what. The guy gave a lot of money to ISU who is doing presumably good things with it. If ISU was actually involved in the man's business practices then nail them to the wall but otherwise so what.
 
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I have never quite.understood why a university or any nonprofit gets shade because some donor acted badly. Why is ISU being tied to this at all? It has nothing to do with them unless the guys name is on a building and needs to be removed. Beyond that so what. The guy gave a lot of money to ISU who is doing presumably good things with it. If ISU was actually involved in the man's business practices then nail them to the wall but otherwise so what.
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It's the optics of being associated with criminals that is noteworthy. Pollard obviously picked $$$ over reputation.

Same with our Republican Governor.
 
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Legend12 said:
What did he do that was criminal?

And were these actions he did, or employees of the company?
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Are you serious? As a CEO, you are responsible for the operations of your entity.

Lynch Livestock buys hogs and pays producers $$$/lb. They underweighed and cheated customers. Not once, but at least twice, and likely more. The conservative estimate is half a mil.

I don't know how this isn't "criminal fraud" and deserving of jail time? This is serious and potentially caused some farming operations to go out of business.
 
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Are you serious? As a CEO, you are responsible for the operations of your entity.

Lynch Livestock buys hogs and pays producers $$$/lb. They underweighed and cheated customers. Not once, but at least twice, and likely more. The conservative estimate is half a mil.

I don't know how this isn't "criminal fraud" and deserving of jail time? This is serious and potentially caused some farming operations to go out of business.
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I won't say that your response is idiotic, because you may not have any experience with regulating government agencies. The rules that these entities come up with, and their varied interpretations by the individual inspectors, create an environment where it is practically impossible for a business to "follow all the rules."

Now in this particular situation, the CEO may be in the wrong. I don't know enough details about what happened. It's likely that only employees of the company will ever know all the details. I can tell you that in dealing with OSHA, the DOT, the DNR, and especially MSHA; a company simply cannot be fully within the rules.

Now, if you do have experience in these matters: Your response is idiotic.
 
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Are you serious? As a CEO, you are responsible for the operations of your entity.

Lynch Livestock buys hogs and pays producers $$$/lb. They underweighed and cheated customers. Not once, but at least twice, and likely more. The conservative estimate is half a mil.

I don't know how this isn't "criminal fraud" and deserving of jail time? This is serious and potentially caused some farming operations to go out of business.
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Divorce is expensive. Gotta pay for it somehow.
 
MitchLL said:
It's the optics of being associated with criminals that is noteworthy. Pollard obviously picked $$$ over reputation.

Same with our Republican Governor.
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And if that money helps kids go to college who cares about optics?
 
MitchLL said:
Are you serious? As a CEO, you are responsible for the operations of your entity.

Lynch Livestock buys hogs and pays producers $$$/lb. They underweighed and cheated customers. Not once, but at least twice, and likely more. The conservative estimate is half a mil.

I don't know how this isn't "criminal fraud" and deserving of jail time? This is serious and potentially caused some farming operations to go out of business.
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Like when U of Iowa student-athletes are put through workouts that are so overwhelming they leave the school and the school settles with them for hundreds of thousands of dollars? Does that make Barta a convicted criminal?
 
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There's no way in hell ISU should still be associated with Lynch, imo.

There's a thing called "ethics " that applies here.

But Pollard obviously has other priorities and ethics be damned.
 
So if , for example, I embezzled from my employer and I used the $$$ to pay my kid's tuition...that's ok?



A crime is a crime is a crime.



Don't be obtuse.



In that case money could potentially be recaptured couldn't it? The point I am unclear about it why would it be a tarnish on ISU or any nonprofit if they accept funds from someone that may not be ethical? You have claimed ISU shouldn't have anything to do with him... Why? This seems like a civil matter between him and whomever he allegedly cheated. If it is a criminal matter then follow that path but even if convicted would restitution once again be between him and the state? It seems to me to be more unethical not to take money that could benefit others based on a loose and arbitrary moral code.
 
If you steal $400,000 on paper, you just have to pay it back and fire a couple of people.

If someone ran out of store with $400,000, they would go to jail for many, many years, if they survived being arrested.
 
I bet ANTIFA infiltration of the company is to blame. They were altering those weights to sabotage the company for being conservative donors. Or maybe it was some rogue illegals using stolen social security numbers to get a job.
 
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Pinehawk said:
If you steal $400,000 on paper, you just have to pay it back and fire a couple of people.

If someone ran out of store with $400,000, they would go to jail for many, many years, if they survived being arrested.
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I'm guessing some attorneys were heavily involved and there even could be some stipulations that Lynch has to divest himself from the corporation.

We have a couple posters in this thread that are acting like this was one, small, isolated incident. He got caught in 2017, was punished, and proceeded to get caught doing the same thing later.

I worked at a grain elevator many moons ago. At the time, there was a "Division of Weights and Measures" or whatever it is called that regularly tested the accuracy of "weigh scales" at grain and livestock buying stations. Lynch's actions in apparently altering the accuracy of them had to be an intentional act to screw customers.

I guess I now understand how he could become such a big donor to ISU athletics and how he was likely welcomed with "open arms" by Jimmie Pollard.
 
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Hog dealer fires workers after USDA levies fines
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An influential hog dealer sanctioned twice for defrauding pork producers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars says it has fired employees responsible for its latest violations and paid restitution to affected sellers.
Lynch Livestock, based in Waucoma, also announced that pork industry veteran Dan Sutherland would lead the company going forward “as a further safeguard against future violations,” citing Sutherland’s experience in compliance matters.
Lynch announced those moves in a news release posted online Wednesday, after the Associated Press reported the U.S. Department of Agriculture had taken enforcement action against the company for illegal buying practices for the second time since 2017.
The company’s longtime owner, Gary Lynch, a political donor to Iowa Republican officials, hasn’t returned messages seeking comment.
In the release, his company said the USDA received a complaint in January that employees at its Waucoma buying station were manipulating the scale and issuing false tickets to artificially lower payments to producers.
Lynch said it investigated the allegations and terminated an unspecified number of employees who engaged in those practices.
“Although this situation arose due to the actions of a few employees at one buying station, we take this matter very seriously,” Gary Lynch was quoted as saying.
“We have already made great strides in establishing new processes and procedures to empower employees and ensure producers receive fair compensation.”
USDA said its investigation found the practices went on for three years, from January 2018 through 2020.
The agency ordered Lynch Livestock to pay $445,626 in penalties and restitution, and to stop recording false weights, altering classifications of hogs delivered and creating false scale tickets.
The company said restitution has already been sent to producers who were underpaid for their hogs.
The USDA had ordered Lynch to pay a fine and restitution and to stop the same practices in 2017, after an investigation found the company “willfully violated” the Packers and Stockyards Act.
Company employees arbitrarily lowered weights for delivered hogs, downgraded their classifications, fictitiously claimed dead hogs to lower prices and created false scale tickets to back up altered weights
 
That press release is just a standard response composed by an attorney.

Of course Gary Lynch won't address questions with details. He's likely about to get his ass sued on multiple class action fronts.

To put this in a sports context about Gary Lynch terminating employees... it's like a baseball manager firing his batting or pitching coaches to save his own ass.

The stench of ISU athletics never ends(pun intended with a hog buyer).
 
If you go to an Iowa Iowa State game in Ames Lynch throws a great tailgate. Right next to the stadium and the best pork around. Great setup.

PS buying stations all cheat. Undercounts are common.
 
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If you go to an Iowa Iowa State game in Ames Lynch throws a great tailgate. Right next to the stadium and the best pork around. Great setup.

PS buying stations all cheat. Undercounts are common.
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Oh, ok then. Everybody does it, so no big deal.

That statement is strictly your opinion and not based on any solid info.

Not every livestock buyer is a crook. This guy just got caught. And it's a reasonably good chance the $$$ is greatly underestimated because many producers probably have no way of proving a complaint. Especially smaller ones.

I'm guessing he got turned in by someone like an Iowa Select or Christianson Farms or someone with an ability to prove he cheated them.

Next time you go to a game, don't look for the "Lynch Livestock" tent. It's now "Lynch Family Companies". I bet you'll even find Gov Reynolds "gladhanding" visitors.

And as an aside... the connection to Kimmy is just another reason she wouldn't crack down on Tyson Meats during Covid. Lynch is probably one of Tysons biggest suppliers.

Corruption, personified.
 
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MitchLL said:
Oh, ok then. Everybody does it, so no big deal.

That statement is strictly your opinion and not based on any solid info.

Not every livestock buyer is a crook. This guy just got caught. And it's a reasonably good chance the $$$ is greatly underestimated because many producers probably have no way of proving a complaint. Especially smaller ones.

I'm guessing he got turned in by someone like an Iowa Select or Christianson Farms or someone with an ability to prove he cheated them.

Next time you go to a game, don't look for the "Lynch Livestock" tent. It's now "Lynch Family Companies". I bet you'll even find Gov Reynolds "gladhanding" visitors.

And as an aside... the connection to Kimmy is just another reason she wouldn't crack down on Tyson Meats during Covid. Lynch is probably one of Tysons biggest suppliers.

Corruption, personified.
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Couple things, mind you we agree on this more than disagree:

Every station for every company does it. It’s part of the game. It’s not right but not every pig makes it on the scale.

He was turned in by his brother who had a stroke 3 hours later. Long feud little bro mad big bro got the inheritance.

If he donated to JD Scholten or whatever that RV guys name is I wouldn’t be saying it looks bad on team D.

Lynch is a big Iowa State donor. He also donates to Iowa athletics. I remember looking at Iowa’s new wrestling facility and there was Gary Lynch, Lynch livestock, Lynch BBQ, etc donations.

Tyson is Tyson’s biggest supplier. Then companies like Iowa Select. Lynch is not in the same league.

He would buy pigs from Iowa Select that weren’t high enough quality to send to Tyson and basically try and market them to sausage/pepperoni type companies. Gary Lynch has made tens of millions but he’s not a giant. It’s easy to hate guys like him but like many in the livestock business hes failed way more than he’s succeed. He went broke and climbed back. Resilient guy who in his 70s could’ve retired a long time ago but is just a worker.
 
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Tyson has sales of over 40 billion per year.
Lynch has sales of around 50 million per year, and Tyson is not one of their biggest customers.

"biggest suppliers"

LMAO
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How fvcking stupid are you? The sales you quoted for Tyson are total company sales, globally. This conversation revolves around the Tyson facilities in Iowa/Midwest that Lynch would market to. Lynch would definitely be one of the largest suppliers.

Just stop trying to discuss something you know nothing about... other than what you can "google".

I know it kills you to accept Lynch has bought influence and was also a big recipient of Federal Covid $$$... all through assistance from Kimmy connected to her campaign funding. Lynch isn't the only "dirty" businessman in Iowa, but he's one of the largest.
 
KFSuperStar said:
Couple things, mind you we agree on this more than disagree:

Every station for every company does it. It’s part of the game. It’s not right but not every pig makes it on the scale.

He was turned in by his brother who had a stroke 3 hours later. Long feud little bro mad big bro got the inheritance.

If he donated to JD Scholten or whatever that RV guys name is I wouldn’t be saying it looks bad on team D.

Lynch is a big Iowa State donor. He also donates to Iowa athletics. I remember looking at Iowa’s new wrestling facility and there was Gary Lynch, Lynch livestock, Lynch BBQ, etc donations.

Tyson is Tyson’s biggest supplier. Then companies like Iowa Select. Lynch is not in the same league.

He would buy pigs from Iowa Select that weren’t high enough quality to send to Tyson and basically try and market them to sausage/pepperoni type companies. Gary Lynch has made tens of millions but he’s not a giant. It’s easy to hate guys like him but like many in the livestock business hes failed way more than he’s succeed. He went broke and climbed back. Resilient guy who in his 70s could’ve retired a long time ago but is just a worker.
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I know all about the friction between the brothers. Hugh John was ruthless in his day'. Gary learned from the master.

By Iowa business standards in livestock marketing, he's pretty big. You are comparing him to national companies. He's a factor in the Midwest because he's bought up most of the smaller buying stations and monopolized the market. There are not many other options in many areas of the State.

You obviously know him, personally. So I think you may not be as objective as some.
 
MitchLL said:
How fvcking stupid are you? The sales you quoted for Tyson are total company sales, globally. This conversation revolves around the Tyson facilities in Iowa/Midwest that Lynch would market to. Lynch would definitely be one of the largest suppliers.

Just stop trying to discuss something you know nothing about... other than what you can "google".

I know it kills you to accept Lynch has bought influence and was also a big recipient of Federal Covid $$$... all through assistance from Kimmy connected to her campaign funding. Lynch isn't the only "dirty" businessman in Iowa, but he's one of the largest.
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You could limit it to Iowa and/or the Midwest and you'd still be laughably incorrect. Lynch is a small operator compared to who Tyson buys the majority of their product from.

Why would it kill me that he bought influence? That is what people do with money do and Reynolds is as buyable as one can be.
 
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